We constantly see new patients in our weight loss program that have previously used one of the prepackaged food weight loss plans. The marketing of these plans are usually incredibly effective. Usually, they pay some over the hill athlete or movie/TV star big bucks to lose substantial weight with their plan, and then run TV commercials and print ads. (Most recently I noticed the Tie a Yellow Ribbon guy on one of these and I wonder how many gigs at the Boyton Beach retirement home clubhouses did he have to cancel to film the commercial.)
They also usually show you foods such as lasagna, brownies and other staples of our American diet, and tell you how you can eat all of these foods and still lose weight.
Pardon my New York vernacular, but as I sneeze, you may hear an audible "Bull S---"
Please remember that for long term success in losing weight AND KEEPING THE WEIGHT OFF, prepackaged foods are not the way to go. You must learn how to eat "real" food differently in order to have a chance at keeping the weight off. "Artificial" plans that utilize a prepackaged caloriuc-controlled dietary plan will produce short term success but as soon as you go back to eating "real" food, if you haven't learned how to change your previous patterns of eating, the weight will come back on.
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